Tad's Happy Funtime

You know this already: So, are you sitting around the table figuring out that you're passively accepting too much?  What do you want...

I inherited my copy of James Glieck's Chaos in 2007, along with a box of other junk left behind by the Air Force staff sergeant I was r...

Part 1: Call Me Maybe (Not) My life as a working man started out in what many would consider "menial jobs" - first as the fry ...

Words mean things. Sometimes, it gets really confusing, because the same word can mean different things - like the way "fly" can...

This is a tale of a phone call faux pas. First of many, and just one reason why I cannot stand the telephone to this day. My father was a ...

I am listening to my two sons read to each other from my Bloom County books in the living room.  This is an uncomfortable thing.  Why? Becau...

In 2011, I posted a musing after the State of the Union address which poked at a couple of the President's less stellar ideas, and pann...